Folks,

What we’re witnessing is the classics of the "good dog" vs. the "bad dog".
The scoop is that most of the tagged terrorist groups listed including
UNITA were at one point in time benefactors of the benevolence of the
American political system through the CIA. Read what the "beat poet" Allen
Ginsburg had to say about the CIA:

"The CIA is an instrument of the American two party system, whereby the
Democrats play innocent and the Republicans play ignorant. Let's be direct:
The American two-party system sets policy. The CIA is in the business of
executing those policies. If the U.S policy entails expanding the realm of
U.S influence, and it has to done covertly, then
 the CIA readily opts to
forge alliances with the regional criminal enterprises. That's the way of
covert action and warfare."

No one could have said it better. America has lots of "pet dogs" some
are "good dogs" others are "bad dogs" that will bark at and bite their
owners (the U.S and the CIA). The Al-Qaeda has created the chance for the
pet owners to put some of the "bad dogs" to sleep. The "good dogs", UNITA
and others will have a chance to serve their masters until they prove
otherwise. Here is Ginsburg again:

" In the case of Angola, the recounting of the CIA's involvement there is
revealing. Former CIA-agent John Stockwell served as a CIA operative during
the bloody Angolan civil war in the 1970's. After he resigned the agency,
as a matter of conscience, he revealed that the CIA backed the insurgency
of UNITA, lead by Marxist Jonas Savimbe (as revealed in ex-CIA agent
John
Stockwell's book, "In Search of Enemies"). The CIA backed UNITA, obviously
not because of Savimbe's communist ideology, but because Angola's
government (also Marxist, allied with Cuba) harbored a large base of ANC
rebels. The CIA's general strategy was to destabilize Angola for the
benefit of the racist colonialist regime in South Africa. The UNITA
insurgents were convenient proxies in achieving the CIA's goals in that
region; the cold war dialectic of "communism vs. capitalism" did not
present itself conveniently in Angola, so the CIA simply exploited what
convenient resource it could use."

You can read more on this at:
<<http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/analysis.html>>

Enjoy your day.

Abdoulie A. Jallow
(BambaLaye)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-M. L. King Jr.

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